Know which stops fit tonight’s light.

Sundial reads the sun against every stop’s aspect and tells you where the light lands — golden hour, blue hour, the lot — from where you are right now.

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We track the sun
Sunrise, sunset, golden and blue hour for your location, to the minute — the dial here is running for today.
02
Matched to aspect
A place can be shot several ways, and each view carries its own bearing. Best fit means the low sun is either in front of a view — or at your back, lighting it.
03
Tonight’s best fits
A ranked list of stops that suit the light, near enough to reach.
Sundial · today’s almanac the app’s own dial · live
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Golden hour
○ rise ● set · amber sun, grey moon
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Golden hour 06:35 – 07:44 · 83°–97°
hover or tap a rim dot for its time
Sunrise
06:57
Sunset
19:17
Golden
06:35 – 07:44
Blue
06:07 – 06:35
Moon
72%
Moonrise
17:22
Moonset
00:05
Night mode · the second face

The same dial, turned to the dark.

Flip the toggle and Sundial reads tonight instead: true darkness, the moon’s movements, and the Milky Way core’s window and bearing. Stops rank by whether the directions they’re shot in face the core under that sky — exactly as golden mode ranks them against the low sun.

Dark window
graded honestly
astronomical, nautical — or a bright midsummer night says there is no real dark, rather than inventing one
Core
window + bearing
when the galactic centre clears the horizon tonight, and which way to face for it
Moon
phase, rise, set
read at the dark window itself — never a moon that is not actually up
Horizon
tonight free
the week ahead on Field — the same 7 days as the Sundial forecast and the field sheet
Woodland · the third face

The same dial, turned to the trees.

A wood isn’t somewhere you face, it’s somewhere you stand in. So woodland ranks stops by the wood they stand in — broadleaf, conifer or mixed — and grades the day’s light flat, workable or harsh from two readings: how diffused the sun is, and whether the leaves are moving. The window says which rule closed it, rather than handing you a number.

Ranked
by the wood
distance to the wood a stop stands in, gated by the light — never a bearing, because a wood has none
Light
flat · workable · harsh
a description of the light, not a favourability: overcast and calm simply is flat
Window
names what closes it
“12:20, the wind gets up” while the cloud holds another eighty minutes
Wind
measured in the open
the forecast reads 10 m above open ground; a mature canopy is far calmer than that
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